Fixing sprinters posture using the foot hyperarch mechanic

jryan15 said:

Thank you Rick. I can't tell ya' how much I appreciate such a compliment from a guru such as yourself . I am not familiar with that drill and would be very interested to check it out.

It's funny that you mention Abbott's drive mechanic, I've been communicating directly with Chong on the topic of pitching drive. When I initially approached him about using HA in a pitching drive mechanic, her clip was the first one that I shared with him.

An interesting fact about using HA, there is a very specific way to tell that you are using the mechanic in explosive movements. I can tell you that before learning HA, that tell tale sign was not present for my DD or myself when we did explosive things such as the two step drill. Without activating HA, it is very likely that all those hard earned reps and offseason workouts were not strengthening her posterior drive chain. Instead her quads and other inefficient muscle groups were just getting stronger.

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jryan15 said:

Thank you.

I meant it more as to say it's not exactly 150 pages of content like you'd see in an actual book. It's short and concise with the details of the mechanic and includes background information to support his position. The book purchase also comes with a good set of videos that complement the ebook. It will also explain how to ensure that you are performing the mechanic correctly. Once you learn the mechanic from the book, the videos teach you how to strengthen and develop it. Unfortunately as far as I know, the specific details of the mechanic are not public knowledge, and I don't feel comfortable spilling the beans.

I don't get any ebook royalties or anything so I'm not trying to drum up book sales. I'm just incredibly grateful to see that the mechanic is changing DD's sprinting mechanics in such an amazing way that I had to share it.

I've found that sprinting, softball, baseball coaches spend lots of time teaching sprinting characteristics (knees up, dorsiflexion, drive extension, running on toes, running gait stuff, etc). It was astounding to me to find that many of those teaching points are actually "no teach" items for people who have correct glute activation.

I hope that some day soon those charateristics will become "no teach" items in her pitching drive mechanic as well.

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turnin2 said:

No, no need to spill the beans. I am sure everyone respects the copyright. I just wanted to make sure what I was paying for. Thanks.

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Rick Pauly said:

I've been doing a drill I call "Quick Sprinters Split Jump Drive"....it does basically what you are describing.

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I offer two options, one is the ebook only for ppl to learn about my story and the mechanism with my youtube videos. second is my facebook group along with ebook which I provide assistance to people who actually train. Not all people who buy the ebook wants to train So my recommendation for the people who want to train is they should get the 2nd package which is the facebook group by clicking on the dropdown arrow when they select the package.

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I think it's important to ADD the Hyperarch Mechanism is a catalyst for neurological/biomechanical change, when you say require no training at all the running gait changed, that's not exactly accurate, we did work on the mechanism with specific method Also even though the gait changed, the nerves are not fully developed and fascia is not yet fully responsive so the speed would not be there (even though distance covered by stride significantly increased). So one still need training to get more and more benefit. I would say the mechanism is THE missing piece of puzzle but not magic pill, it takes months and years of work with the mechanism to reach total fascia fitness and glutes dominance.

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Doug Romrell said:

This thread is very interesting, as I've noticed that one of the biggest problems in young pitchers is that most develop a stride-dominant drive. The HA stuff could go a long way in helping those who work with pitchers to correct the stride-dominance problem.

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jryan15 said:

TAn interesting fact about using HA, there is a very specific way to tell that you are using the mechanic in explosive movements. I can tell you that before learning HA, that tell tale sign was not present for my DD or myself when we did explosive things such as the two step drill. Without activating HA, it is very likely that all those hard earned reps and offseason workouts were not strengthening her posterior drive chain. Instead her quads and other inefficient muscle groups were just getting stronger.

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